So a 22 year old straight out of university and having no knowledge of the area might get to become the MP for that area, it's amazing what can be done if you have the right parents, new labour are really taking over the old conservative role very well.

So it's OK under New Labour to have dynastys for MPs ie Prescotts son to take over his seat, whilst the same lot are busy dismantling the House of Lords having already done away with heriditary peerages etc. The hypocracy of this lot really does know no bounds.

So it's OK under New Labour to have dynastys for MPs ie Prescotts son to take over his seat, whilst the same lot are busy dismantling the House of Lords having already done away with heriditary peerages etc. The hypocracy of this lot really does know no bounds.

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Errrr....except the candidate would still need to be elected by the voters.

Early life
Benn was born during the Labour party conference in 1989. She lives in South Norwood, and attended Wallington High School for Girls from 2001 to 2006, where she achieved 11 A* grades in her GCSEs in summer 2006. She studied Music, History and Latin for A level at St Olave's Grammar School. She achieved 3 A grades in her A levels in summer 2008.

Campaigning
She claims that her first political experience to be campaigning for her grandfather in his Chesterfield constituency in the 1992 general election, aged 2, and she joined the Labour Party aged 14. On 12 September 2007, three weeks before her 18th birthday, she was selected from a shortlist of two to contest East Worthing and Shoreham in the next general election. She is the youngest ever Labour party prospective Parliamentary candidate. The sitting MP, Conservative Tim Loughton, won a majority of 8,183 in the 2005 UK general election.

She supported the Iraq war, and claims, like her uncle Hilary, to be a "Benn, not a Bennite". (Note by OS - I reckon she would have been around 14 when GW2 kicked off - so well able to support it......)

Candidacy for Parliament
With the next United Kingdom general election due by 3 June 2010, before her 21st birthday, she is eligible to stand because the Electoral Administration Act 2006 lowered the age from 21 to 18. Thus, if elected, she would become the youngest ever MP since the Reform Act 1832. The current record holder is Esmond Harmsworth, elected on 15 November 1919 from Isle of Thanet, aged 21 years 170 days. The youngest female MP was Bernadette Devlin, elected on 17 April 1969 from Mid Ulster, aged 21 years 359 days.

Emily is in her first year at New College, Oxford, studying History and Politics.

So, the neice of the man who gave up the title of Lord Stansgate in the '60s with great fuss because of his socialist hatred of inherited benefits is to become a candidate, no doubt because of her impeccable political credentials.

So it's OK under New Labour to have dynastys for MPs ie Prescotts son to take over his seat, whilst the same lot are busy dismantling the House of Lords having already done away with heriditary peerages etc. The hypocracy of this lot really does know no bounds.

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Errrr....except the candidate would still need to be elected by the voters.

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Which voters are these? The one's who's ballot papers have already 'helpfuly' been filled out for them, the voters that turn up inside tampered boxes or the voters who register en-mass to vote by post and who all use the same handwriting?

So it's OK under New Labour to have dynastys for MPs ie Prescotts son to take over his seat, whilst the same lot are busy dismantling the House of Lords having already done away with heriditary peerages etc. The hypocracy of this lot really does know no bounds.

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Errrr....except the candidate would still need to be elected by the voters.